THE REGIONAL PARK OF THE LOOP OF THE NORMAN SEINE

The Regional Park Loops of the Seine Normandy covers the major part of the lower valley of the Seine between Rouen and Le Havre upstream to downstream. The archaeological sites alongside witnesses of history and Rural Industrial crops earth, river and sea mingle over meander. The park has undertaken to preserve and enhance the natural and cultural heritage.

From the meandering Seine were born five loops and two contrasting sides, alternately covered with forest and bordered by water meadows, flower-Ecological Park. Landscapes of valleys, hills to climb, trays surveying, natural preserve, forest breathing, topographical diversity is astonishing.

Let yourself be tempted by the invitation tourist in a world where beauty and quality of life are one.

Home park located in Notre-Dame-de-Bliquetuit (3 km from Domaine La Renardière) will give you the keys to a trip to the hollow Loops.

You can also see the Sea at Fecamp, Etretat and Honfleur after about 3 / 4 hour drive.

Le Four à Pain
At the Haye-de-Routot every Sunday afternoon from March to November, demonstration cooking breads and other specialties with a crisp bakery leader.

Le château d'Etelan

Stained glasses, stone floors in the weapons of surprising Picards and fresco decorate the chapel of the castle. This house was built in 1494, on the vestiges of a fortification of the XIVth century, what explains its situation in overhang on the valley of the Seine and the impregnable point of view on the forest of Brotonne. Of style Flamboyant Gothic, it consists of two main buildings made by stones and by alternated bricks and interconnected by a gallery of staircase dating the first Renaissance evoking the Italian palaces. She constitutes a wonderful model of the Norman expression of the architecture the Renaissance.

Saint Wandrille's abbey

Nested in the heart of the swampy valley of Fontenelle, brook stream of the Seine, the abbey was established in 649 by Saint Wandrille, under the protection of the bishop of Rouen, Holy Ouen. Burned by the Normans in 862 and found a century later, Holy Wandrille was a major religious and intellectual center in Normandy. Saint Wandrille was sold and partially destroyed during the French Revolution. After its repurchase by the archbishopric of Rouen in 1894, the monastic life was restored until 1901, there date in which was proclaimed the republican law of eviction of the religious congregations. The monks were back to Saint Wandrille only in 1931. Since then, the community Benedictine occupies the places where the work of the illuminators was replaced by a program of digitalization of archives but where ring, at the hours offices, Gregorian chants.

Jumièges's abbey

In the XVIIth century, the abbey played an essential role in the local economy, fixing the populations on the river bank, facilitating the agrarian evolution, livening leading the trades and generating steady river activities. Major spiritual center, the abbey was also an important property owner and by there even participated in the construction of the territory The mill of Hauville, Prieuré du Torps in forest of Brotonne, the Manor house of the Vineyard in Mesnil-sous-Jumièges or still dîmière barn of Heurteauville are all of the ancient properties of the abbey and the witnesses of his wide regional influence. Symbol of the religious power, the abbey was sold as very national and transformed into stony career during the French Revolution. Mutilated and ruined, the abbey becomes at the beginning of the 19th century, one of the high places of the romanticism.

The abbey Benedictine Saint-Georges to Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville

Established in the XIth century by Raoul de Tancarville, big Chamberlain of William the Conqueror, archaeological excavations revealed that for the first century AD, buildings dedicated to the heathen then Christian cult succeeded one another on this site of the current abbey. Begun in the XIIth century, the constructrution of the abbey is realized in the purest Norman Romanic style. The religious buildings of origin disappeared to leave place with the work of Mauristes which, in the XVIIth century rebuilt a new hotel business, of a classic style. The abbey is, since 1987, the object of a vast construction site of catering which reveals its story, the magnificence of buildings and gardens.

La Maison du Parc

Installed in a manor house of the XVIth century, say "La ferme de la Côte", la Maison du Parc is a remarkable example of Norman farm building. Around the lodging house divide up the charetterie, the stable, the dovecote, the orchard, etc. Opened to the public, la Maison du Parc proposes exposures and nature trail as well as information about the territory of the Park.

The natural office

Situated to St-Opportune-la-Mare, she makes sensitive the public on the problèmatique of the natural circles. She(it) organizes refutations and educational animations on certain sites: the nature reserve of Mannevilles, meadow in Donkeys in the swamp Vernier, the swamp of St-Sulpice-de-Grimbouville, the nature reserve of the Vallon du Vivier, the forest,…

La Maison de la Pomme

Situated Ste-Opportune-la-Mare, near an orchard academy about 50 local and regional varieties, she makes discover this generous fruit in all its declensions. Cider, Knob, juice of apple and Calvados are for sale.

Le Moulin de Hauville
Delivered to the West winds which sweep the tray of Roumois for the XIIIth century, the windmill of Hauville retains the eye in a landscape of cereal plain. Symbol of the rustic economy, the mill evokes the control of the natural elements by the man and the miller, the indispensable character, respected and been jealous by all. The mill draws up itself for more than 7 centuries on a height of the village of Hauville. Built stone by the monks of Jumièges, it worked until 1870, after which, it was neglected. Restored by Le Parc Naturel Régional des Boucles de la Seine Normandie, he found his mechanism, his wings and his roof in 1984. The tower being fixed, the thatched roof and the axis revolve to place clothes in front of wind and start the heavy mechanism of the gearings and the grindstones.

Victor Hugo's museum

This very beautiful house of the XIXth century which faces in the Seine, was a property of the family Vacquerie, the rich havrais shipowners of whom one of the sons had married Léopoldine, girl loved by Victor Hugo. The musé evokes the life of these two families and the tragic drowning with Léopoldine's Seine and her husband. Collections consist of souvenirs of the stays which made it the writer with his family. She show the area and the variety of the work of the poet. It is indeed about one of the most important collections of original drawings and about Victor Hugo's letters.

La route des chaumières

Real idealized image of traditional Normandy, the thatched cottage is at first a house of payson poor man built with local materials: the straw of wheat or rye for the thatch, the wood for the skeleton and the half-timberings, the clay for the cob of walls.

After a period of decline, the thatched cottage got back to its letters of nobility with a cover from now on in reed. Le Parc Naturel Régional des Boucles de la Seine Normande facilitated the catering of this housing environment and dedicated her an organised trip marked out to follow by car, motorcycle or in bicycle: la route des chaumières which makes the tour of the swamp Vernier then goes follows the Seine by the village of Vieux Port and Aizier to join the Bridge of Brotonne and La Maison du Parc.

La route des fruits
Under the beneficial effect of the microclimate created by the river, cherry trees, apple trees, pear trees and plum trees splash with their given lustre color the spring campaign. Leaving of the "La Maison du Parc", the Road of Fruits crosses the municipality of Heurteauville then follows the loop since Jumièges until Duclair and leads you orchards height-wind to stalls weighed down by cherries, strawberries and apples proposed in the sale "in the barrier".